GANDHINAGAR: Regardless of having top-of-the-line healthcare services and infrastructure, the Vijay Rupani-led authorities has disclosed earlier than the state meeting that greater than 18 newborns died on a regular basis inside hours of their start in Gujarat up to now two years.
Nonetheless, there was not a single demise of newborns reported from Devbhumi Dwarka, Botad, Anand, Aravalli and Mahisagar districts in the identical interval.
Answering a collection of written questions put up by Congress legislators, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel who additionally holds the well being portfolio, knowledgeable the Home {that a} complete of 13,496 new child infants out of the full 1,06,017 admitted within the Sick New child Care Items in authorities hospitals throughout the state, died throughout 2019 and 2020. This meant that on common over 18 infants died in these items.
The Congress legislators had requested as to what number of kids had been admitted within the Sick New child Care Items in these two years, and in addition what number of had been from the federal government in addition to from non-public hospitals.
Out of the full new child admitted within the Sick New child Care items, a complete of 69,314 had been transferred from authorities hospitals, whereas 38,561 (36.37 per cent) from non-public hospitals.
Out of the full newborns admitted in Panchmahal district, nearly 79 per cent had been shifted from non-public hospitals. Out of the full 1,892 infants admitted in Panchmahals, 1,493 had been admitted from non-public hospitals, whereas the remainder 399 the place from authorities setups.
In Rajkot, the native place of the Gujarat Chief Minister Rupani, the utmost variety of deaths of newborns occurred — round 18 per cent newborns died. Out of the full 10,623 newborns admitted in Rajkot, 1,834 had died.
